[mythtv-users] Fwd: Further Notice of Seagate Hard Drive Class Action and Proposed Settlement

[jedi]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:52:16AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > All hard drives from all vendors have always been sold by base 10 sizes--at
> > least since I bought my 80MB hard drive back in the early 90's.  That's
> > called standardization.
> >
> > I never--from any label on a Seagate hard drive--got the impression they
> > were using some measurement that differed from any other manufacturer's.
> >
> > Mike
> <SNIP>
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> Interesting though how this differs from what happened with memory
> purchasing as 4GB is actually 4.294GB. People don't complain about
> getting 7% more for their money, do they... ;-)
> 
> People want to own computers and count with their fingers like it's
> change at the grocery store I think...

    How many significant figures would you rather deal with?

    1 or 13?

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